This past Sunday, 10 of us ran in two relay teams in the First Annual Colorado Colfax Marathon! It started east of Denver, out in Aurora, and went all the way to Lakewood, west of Denver. People ran down your favorite street and mine, Colfax Ave. The relay was broke down like this: 10K, 5K, 10K, 5K and 12K.Our team names were hippoJOGamus and hippoRUNamus, following in the hippo tradition which started in August '05 with the hippoPUBamus. Team hippoJOGamus consisted of me, Liz, Lucia, Alice and Maggie and team hippoRUNamus consisted of Justin, Annie, Lloyd, Marisa and Kate. That is all of us in the pic. Just like that Streets song goes, We're So Fit and Don't We Know it.
We had a blast running and also totally appreciate our two team drivers, John and Joe, who both got up super early to shuttle us to the relay exchange zones and to the finish line. They are totally rad.
Of course later that afternoon we had a big party/BBQ which was quite the success, with a fruit watermelon being voted Favorite Food. Also, we only had 1 PBR left out of the many, many beers which seems to signal a scucessful party.
A highlight of the race for me was running the first 10K, and half of it with a grey-haired man named Bob who told me about the shrapnel in his right lung and how he used to fly helicopters. And yes, I was running the same pace as this probably 65 year old man, but I still exceeded my goal time!
Fun fun fun. Perhaps more races in the future, as well.
4 comments:
OMG that is so cool! CONGRATULATIONS! Is that a bowl of people chow I see by the winning watermelon?
That was me
This is so freakin' fantastic, Leah! I wanna run marathons too. But someone needs to kick my lazy ass off the TV couch first! :)
sunitha it is TOTALLY the people chow. hahahha. they call it puppy chow around here, too. hahahhaha. it was the 2nd most popuplar food at the party, after the fruit watermelon kabobs
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